Word Meaning

Meaning of bulb

- A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.
- A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.
- An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc.
- To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

Crossword clue for bulb

- A light globe
- A light-producing daffodil?
- Daffodil, eg
- Flower part
- Light globe
- Rounded thermometer end
- Sob uncontrollably, upset for globe
- Source of light
- Storage organ of a tulip
- Tuber
- Tulip or daffodil